HUNGRY HOLLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 33, 8 February 1917, Page 5

HUNGRY HOLLAND.

FOO MUCH FOOD SMUGGLED

INTO GERMANY

Australian and X.Z. Cable Associatios

(Heceivf-r; Feb. S. 31.10 a.m.)

AMSTEHP\M

Feb. 7

"i'!;e sufferings of the poorer people :>re becjinin^; rptTch more acute. The vi verity of tl-e ".vpjitlier «;jcsyavates ti'.cir ni is ->rv. Distnrbnnees have <:c,-:uTed at Atn.stercia'i!, Rotterdam, and The Hague, .md the gravest aiiMetv exists.

There .ire widespread p?-ote?ts a^junst the Government's not having

suppressed food smuggling to Gemn any. The frontier guard is charged with complicity. The rumois that G-^rniany hopes to import increased quantities of food in return for manufactures deepen the public alarm